Harry Kane and Dele Alli combined to help Tottenham thrash Watford with two goals apiece

During the last three weeks, Dele has scored seven goals in four games, capped by those two replica efforts which downed Chelsea on Wednesday, both executed with supreme heading technique reminiscent of Alan Shearer.

So when a young player appears to have it all, why wouldn’t Real, PSG and the rest be desperate to sign him?

Dele recently signed a six-year contract worth around £50,000 per week, one of several Spurs players to have posed with boss Mauricio Pochettino in identical photos as they extended their agreements.

But the PFA Young Player of the Year and his advisors know he could earn three or four times as much elsewhere.

If a player digs his heels in and insists he wants to move, it is difficult to keep him.

Spurs talked a good game when Real targeted Luka Modric and Gareth Bale.

Chairman Daniel Levy squeezed them for top dollar, but eventually they were sold.

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It was just like Michael Carrick and Dimitar Berbatov when Manchester United came calling beforehand.

Yet while professional footballers rarely, if ever, begrudge their team-mates a move to a wealthier club, there is a strong belief that Dele’s development would be best-served by remaining at Tottenham for the next two or three seasons.

That is despite this being a real period of uncertainty as the club relocate not once but twice, to Wembley then to their new stadium next door to the condemned White Hart Lane.

Dele is described by team-mates as a ‘work hard, play hard’ individual.

He impressed Pochettino greatly by arriving for pre-season three weeks early after leaving the Dons in the summer of 2015 and remains as fit as a butcher’s dog.

But he is renowned as a player who likes to party, more than most young footballers.

And Pochettino is said to have developed a dressing room which is self-policing — in which senior players will tell Dele to pick and choose his moments to let his hair down, as well as when to cool down his on-field fieriness, with the youngster willing to listen.

Dele accepted private criticism from team-mates for the embarrassing dive which led to the opening goal against Swansea last month.

And he was also warned after his punch on West Brom’s Claudio Yacob earned him a three-match ban which saw him miss the collapse of Tottenham’s title bid last season.

There is an air of mutual respect between Dele and the more experienced players in Spurs’ dressing room — as well as a confirmed bromance with his best pal Eric Dier.

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Dele, who was effectively adopted by the parents of a team-mate as a teenager and is estranged from both his birth parents, is not a wild child.

But he can be a loose-cannon and there are fears he could go off the rails if he moves away from a positive environment like Poch’s Spurs.

Much may depend on whether Tottenham are able to sustain their recent form, a five-match winning run including the victory over the league leaders.

The belief is they are capable of winning the title, or at least going very close, as long as they are lucky with injuries — but that they do not possess the same squad depth as any of their top-six rivals.

Dele, the £5million bargain buy from League One Dons who became the last King of White Hart Lane, will play a key role in the run-in.

The men with the fattest wallets in world football will be watching but Spurs believe Alli knows which side his bread is buttered.